Would source roots make sense for a Shell implementation? If you have an

.sh

file at

src/sh/foo.sh

and it sources

src/sh/dep.sh

, would you expect to do

source dep.sh

or

source src/sh/dep.sh

? I don't think there would be an equivalent to PYTHONPATH, beyond maybe cd-ing into the source root?

To make things relocatable I think

source dep.sh

I suspect that the repo root is the only "source root" that makes sense for shell

I think I agree with you Benjy. Too much of a recipe for confusion to have to reason about source roots

Hopefully some of these modelling questions can be put to bed once and for all for the sake of an easy to follow system. It seems to me, if the language does not have the concept of an import path, no source roots. For she'll script sourcing there is no such import path (no BASH_SOURCE_PATH), so no source roots. Just the plain filesystem.